TI-2022-00597 Aliases CVE-2022-0683 GHSA-852g-r9w8-m37g

Essential Addons for Elementor Lite <= 5.0.8 Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

LOW 33CWE-79Published 2022-02-24 · Updated 2025-01-31

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: Required
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Cross-site scripting
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: Low · Low · None
Fix status: No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.

Summary

The Essential Addons for Elementor Lite WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient escaping and sanitization of the settings parameter found in the ~/includes/Traits/Helper.php file which allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts onto a pages that executes whenever a user clicks on a specially crafted link by an attacker. This affects versions up to and including 5.0.8.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.03243 88th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
Essential Addons for Elementor Lite	Essential Addons for Elementor Lite	5.0.8 – 5.0.8	—	No fix listed	CNA

Essential Addons for Elementor Lite VendorEssential Addons for Elementor Lite Affected 5.0.8 – 5.0.8 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:wpdeveloper:essential_addons_for_elementor::::::wordpress::*	up to 5.0.8	Vulnerable	wpdevteam

cpe:2.3:a:wpdeveloper:essential_addons_for_elementor:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* Versions up to 5.0.8 Vulnerable ·wpdevteam

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2022-0683
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-852g-r9w8-m37g

References

Patch 1

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2680585%40essential-addons-for-elementor-lite&new=2680585%40essential-addons-for-elementor-lite&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

Advisory 1

https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-0683

TI-2023-15541 WordPress Essential Addons for Elementor Plugin 5.4.0-5.7.1 is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2022-00249 Essential Addons for Elementor < 5.0.5 - Unauthenticated LFI CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2024-02825 Essential Addons for Elementor <= 5.9.13 - Authenticated (Author+) PHP Object Injection via error_resetpassword CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
TI-2023-22340 WordPress Essential Addons for Elementor plugin <= 5.8.8 - Contributor+ Privilege Escalation vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
TI-2021-03303 Essential Addons for Elementor <= 4.6.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Privilege Escalation CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
TI-2023-15543 WordPress Essential Addons for Elementor Pro Plugin <= 5.4.8 is vulnerable to Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8

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Sources

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